Tinjauan Yuridis Perma No. 1 Tahun 2016 dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Jumlah Penyelesaian Sengketa Secara Damai di Pengadilan Agama Surakarta

Normatively mediation stated under the Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 year 2016 on mediation procedures in article 1 verse 1 is defined as a way of dispute settlement through negotiation process to obtain agreement of the parties with the help of mediator. The implementation of Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 year 2008 on previous mediation procedures in court was not yet optimal in meeting the need for more efficient mediation implementation and was able to improve the sucess of mediation in court. Not yet effective and not yet optimal the previous Perma among them which is minimal and not yet cerified, judge positioning themselves not far from the function of the judge itself, so thats why the rate of mediation in the Religion Courts is still far from expected that less than 10% of the cases of civil cases received in religious courts can be resolved through mediation. After the arrival of Perma No. 1 year 2016 on mediation procedures is a regulation on new mediation procedures in the court which contains provisions on new provisions in the implementation of the mediation that the provisions concerning the judges certified mediators as a neutral party in assisting the parties in conducting negotiation process in dispute settlement. The purpose of this study is to explain the implications of the Perma No. 1 year 2016 in the mediation process in the Religious Courts of Surakarta with the previous regulation and also explain what the Perma No. 1 year 2016 can increase the number of decisions of peace in the case in the Religious Court of Surakarta. In this study, used the juridical empirical legal approach that is the approach taken to solve problems with primary data research in the field in the Religious Courts of Surakarta